Jehovah's Witnesses employ modern technology
in their
defense

Late in March Russian Jehovah's Witnesses began
a campaign
for promoting on the Internet the hashtag #StopJWBan in order to
attract
attention to the threat of a ban on their confession. Thanks to
the action, in
just one day almost 20 thousand persons viewed on YouTube a video
appeal of
Vasily Kalin, the director of the Administrative Center of their
confession, a
Portal-Credo.ru correspondent reports.

"They don't let us defend ourself in courts and
they do
not admit us to major news media. Only the Internet remains," the
campaign
on the website, stopjwban.blogspot.com, says.

The action is actively connected to believers
beyond the
boundaries of the country. Twitter users from various countries
have published
on the aforementioned hashtag photographs of their own letters to
Russian
authorities, the American president, the United Nations, and other
international organizations.

The hearing in the Supreme Court of the RF on
the lawsuit of
the justice ministry is scheduled for 5 April, which requests
declaring the
religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses to be "extremist"
and liquidating
it.(tr. by PDS,
posted 26 March
2017)

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